Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-12-22

with their fest toward the east, and not at all
anxious that during their whole life they |
should face In the right direction 20 that they
shall coma up in the resurrection Of the Just
whichever way they are buried How many
there are chiety anxious that a minister Of
the Gospel shall come In the line OF apostolic
succession, not caring 30 much whether be
comes from Apostle Paul or Apostle Judas
They have q way Of measuring q gnat until
q Is larger than q camel
Again: Ny subject photographs all thoss
who are abhorrent Of small sins, while they
are reckless in regard to magnificent theftl.
You will find many a merchant who, while
he is so careful that be would not take yard
OF cloth or q spool OF cotton from the counter
without paying for it. and who. II bank
cashier should mako mistake and send in q
roll OF bills IS too much, would dispatch
messenger in hot haste to return the surplus,
yet who win 60 into q stock company in
which, after while, he gets control Of the
stock, and then waters the stock and makes
stole S100, 900 by the operation Many Of
the men OF fortune made their wealth in that
way One OF those men, engaged In such un-
righteous acts. that evening, the evening OF
the very day when he watered the stock, win
find wharf rat stealing newspaper from
the basement doorway, and will go out and
catch the urchin by the collar, and twist the
that it was thirst for knowledge that led him
tc the dishonest act, but grip the collar
tighter and tighter, saying: s. have been
looking for you long while; you've stole my
paper four or five times. haven't you'll
you miserable wretch And then the old
stock gambler, with voice they can hear
three blocks, viii cry out: "Pohce, police"
which he watered his stock, will kneel
with his family in prayers and thank
God for the prosperity OF the day,
then kiss his children good night with
an air which seems to say: 81 hope you
will all grow up to be as good as your
father" Prisons for sins insectile In size,
but palaces for crimes dromedarian. No
mercy for sins animalcule in proportion, but
great leniency for mastodon iniquity. A
poor boy slyly takes from the basket Of a
market woman a choice pear-saving some
one else from the cholera--and you smother
him in the horrible atmosphere OF Raymond
Street Jail or New York Tombs, while his
cousin. who has been skillful enough to steal
$50, 900 from the city, you will make him
There is a great deal Of uneasiness and ner-
vousness now among some people in our
time to have gotten unrighteous fortunes,
a great deal Of nervousness about dynamite.
! / tell them that God will put under their nm
| righteous fortunes something more explosive
| than dynamite, the earthquake OF his omnip-
| otent Indignation. 1t is time that we learn
| ir America that sin is not excusable In pro
| poition as it declares large dividends and has
to perdition, position ahead and lackey be-
| hind To steal one copy of a newspaper is a
gnat; to steal many thousands OF dollars is q
camel. There is many fruitdealer who would
| not consent to steal a basket OF peaches from
a neighbours stall, but who would not scruple
TO depress the fruit market; and as long as
| can remember we have read every summer
the peach crop of Maryland is a failure, and
| by the time the crop comes in the misappre-
hension makes difference of millions OF dol
lars. A man who would not steal one peach
basket steals 50, 900 peach baskets. Go down
in the summer time into the Mercantile
library, in the reading room, and see the
newspaper reports Of the crops from all parts
| of the country, and their phraseology is very
much the same, and the same men wrote
them, methodically and UNANIMOUSLY carry
! ing out the huge lying about the grain crop
| from year to year and for score of years.
| After a while there will be ''cornern in
i the wheat market, and men who Lad a
contempt for a petty theft Will bur
commit larceny upon the American corn
crib And some of the men will sit in
churches and in reformatory institutions try
| ing to strain out the small gnats of scoundrel-
ism, while in their grain elevators and their
storehouses they are fattening huge ca mels
which they expect after while to swallow
Society has to be entirely reconstructed on
this subject. We are to find that a sin is in
excusable in proportion as it is great.
Iknow in our time the tendency is to charge
religious frauds upon good men. They say:
"Oh, what a class of frauds you have in the
Church of God in this day." and when an
elder of a church, or deacon.o or minister OF
the Gospel, or superintendent Of Sabbath
school turns out a defaulter, what display
heads there are in many of the newspapers
Great primer type. Five line pica "Another
Saint Absconded;n "Clerical Scoundrel-
ism;' ''Religion at DISCOUNT" "Shamt
on the Churches;" while there are Q
thousand scoundrels outside to wher,
there is one inside the church, ant
the inisbehavior Of those who never set
the inside of church is so great it is enoug
to tempt man to become Christian to ge
out of their company. But in all circles
religious and irreligious, the tendency is Il
excuse sin in proportion as it is mammoth
Even John Milton in his g Paradise Lost,
while he condemns Satan, gives such grant
description OF him You have hard work Il
suppress your admiration. Oh, this strain
ing out of small sins like gnats and this gulp
ing down great iniquities like camelsl
This subject does not give the picture o
one OF two persons but IS a gallery in whicl
thousands Of people may see their likenesses
For instance, all those people who, while the,
would not rob their nsighbor Of farthing
appropriate the money and the treasure
the public. A man has house to sell, an
,, he tells his customer it is worth $40, ,00t
Next day the assessor comes around an
. the owner says it is worth $4,000. Th
I government Of the United States too
Off the tax from personal income, anon
! other reasons, because so few peopl
!, would tell the truth, and many man wit
i an income of hundreds Of dollars day mad
!. statements which seemed to imply he wa
4 about to bs hanied over to the overseer {
the Door. Careful to pay their passage froI
n Liverpool to New York, yet smuggling
i their Saratoga trunk ten silk dresses frol
q Paris and a half dozen watches from Genevs
+ Switzerland, telling the custom house Officer
Q on the wharf: "There is nothing in tht
8 trunk but wearing apparel and putting
g five-dollar gold piece in his hand to punctua
T the statement
i Described in the text are all those who al
y particular never to break the law OF gran
d mar, AMI who want all their language an el
} giant specimen OF syntax, straining out q
o the inaccuracies of speech with fine sieve
b literary criticism, while through their col
], yersation 70 sIander and innuendo and pr
family and falsehood larger than whole ca
y ayan Of camels, when they might bett
y fracture every law of the langua
y and shock intellectual taste, and better
y every verb seek in vain for its nominatl'
y and every noun for its government, a
y every proposition lose ITS way IN tne senten.
y and adiectives and partfciples and pronou
So getinto grand riot worthy OF the -Four
!. Ward on election day, than to commit
to = moral inaccuracy. Better swallow the
q 4, sand gnats than one camel
- Such persons are also described IN tne te